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astro-ph.EP2025★ 12 cited

Cloud and Haze Parameterization in Atmospheric Retrievals: Insights from Titan's Cassini Data and JWST Observations of Hot Jupiters

Quentin Changeat, Deborah Bardet, Katy Chubb +4

Context: Before JWST, telescope observations were not sensitive enough to constrain the nature of clouds in exo-atmospheres. Recent observations, however, have inferred cloud signa…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

DARWEN: Data-driven Algorithm for Reduction of Wide Exoplanetary Networks

A. Lira-Barria, J. N. Harvey, T. Konings +5

Exoplanet atmospheric modeling is advancing from chemically diverse one-dimensional (1D) models to three-dimensional (3D) global circulation models (GCMs), which are crucial for in…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

The D/H ratio in Titan's acetylene from high spectral resolution IRTF/TEXES observations

B. Bézard, C. A. Nixon, S. Vinatier +5

We report observations of deuterated acetylene (CHD) at 19.3 m (519 cm) with the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in J…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 96 cited

Sulphur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b

Diana Powell, Adina D. Feinstein, Elspeth K. H. Lee +70

The recent inference of sulphur dioxide (SO) in the atmosphere of the hot (1100 K), Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b from near-infrared JWST observations suggests that phot…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

A low-mass sub-Neptune planet transiting the bright active star HD 73344

S. Sulis, I. J. M. Crossfield, A. Santerne +33

Context. Planets with radii of between 2-4 RE closely orbiting solar-type stars are of significant importance for studying the transition from rocky to giant planets. Aims. Our goa…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

Experimental investigations of diacetylene ice photochemistry in Titan's atmospheric conditions

Benjamin Fleury, Murthy S. Gudipati, Isabelle Couturier-Tamburelli

A large fraction of the organic species produced photochemically in the atmosphere of Titan can condense to form ice particles in the stratosphere and in the troposphere. According…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 7 cited

ATMOSPHERIX: III- Estimating the C/O ratio and molecular dynamics at the limbs of WASP-76 b with SPIRou

Thea Hood, Florian Debras, Claire Moutou +13

Measuring the abundances of C- and O-bearing species in exoplanet atmospheres enables us to constrain the C/O ratio, that contains indications about the planet formation history. W…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 7 cited

ARES VI: Viability of one-dimensional retrieval models for transmission spectroscopy characterization of exo-atmospheres in the era of JWST and Ariel

Adam Yassin Jaziri, William Pluriel, Andrea Bocchieri +10

Observed exoplanet transit spectra are usually retrieved using 1D models to determine atmospheric composition while planetary atmospheres are 3D. With the JWST and future space tel…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 35 cited

Is the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b variable?

Quentin Changeat, Jack W. Skinner, James Y-K. Cho +12

We present a comprehensive analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope observations of the atmosphere of WASP-121 b, a ultra-hot Jupiter. After reducing the transit, eclipse, and phase-…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 19 cited

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets-XIX. A system including a cold sub-Neptune potentially transiting a V = 6.5 star HD88986

N. Heidari, I. Boisse, N. C. Hara +51

Transiting planets with orbital periods longer than 40 d are extremely rare among the 5000+ planets discovered so far. The lack of discoveries of this population poses a challenge…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

Experimental Investigation of the Photochemical Production of Hydrocarbons in Warm Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres

Benjamin Fleury, Yves Benilan, Olivia Venot +3

In warm (equilibrium temperature <1000 K) gas giant exoplanet atmospheres, the observation of trace species in abundances deviating from thermochemical equilibrium predictions coul…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 11 cited

An extensively validated C/H/O/N chemical network for hot exoplanet disequilibrium chemistry

R. Veillet, O. Venot, B. Sirjean +4

We aimed to build a new and updated C0-C2 chemical network to study the CHON disequilibrium chemistry of warm and hot exoplanet atmospheres that relies on extensively validated and…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 13 cited

Thermal Behavior of Astrophysical Amorphous Molecular Ices

Murthy S. Gudipati, Benjamin Fleury, Robert Wagner +3

Ice is a major component of astrophysical environment - from interstellar molecular clouds through protoplanetary disks to evolved solar systems. Ice and complex organic matter coe…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 12 cited

Temperature-chemistry coupling in the evolution of gas giant atmospheres driven by stellar flares

Harrison Nicholls, Eric Hébrard, Olivia Venot +2

The effect of enhanced UV irradiation associated with stellar flares on the atmospheric composition and temperature of gas giant exoplanets was investigated. This was done using a…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

A re-analysis of equilibrium chemistry in five hot Jupiters

Emilie Panek, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Pierre Drossart +4

Studying chemistry and chemical composition is fundamental to go back to formation history of planetary systems. We propose here to have another look at five targets to better dete…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

High-fidelity reaction kinetic modeling of hot-Jupiter atmospheres incorporating thermal and UV photochemistry enhanced by metastable CO(a3Pi)

Jeehyun Yang, Murthy S. Gudipati, Bryana L Henderson +1

A detailed modeling of simultaneous UV-photochemical and thermochemical processes in exoplanet atmosphere-like conditions is essential for the analysis and interpretation of a vast…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 145 cited

A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b

Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Björn Benneke, Ryan Challener +73

Close-in giant exoplanets with temperatures greater than 2,000 K (''ultra-hot Jupiters'') have been the subject of extensive efforts to determine their atmospheric properties using…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 232 cited

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRISS

Adina D. Feinstein, Michael Radica, Luis Welbanks +86

Transmission spectroscopy provides insight into the atmospheric properties and consequently the formation history, physics, and chemistry of transiting exoplanets. However, obtaini…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 197 cited

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam

Eva-Maria Ahrer, Kevin B. Stevenson, Megan Mansfield +96

Measuring the metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio in exoplanet atmospheres is a fundamental step towards constraining the dominant chemical processes at work and, if in eq…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 274 cited

Early Release Science of the Exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H

Lili Alderson, Hannah R. Wakeford, Munazza K. Alam +89

Measuring the abundances of carbon and oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres is considered a crucial avenue for unlocking the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems. Access to a…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 327 cited

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec PRISM

Z. Rustamkulov, D. K. Sing, S. Mukherjee +91

Transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets has revealed signatures of water vapor, aerosols, and alkali metals in a few dozen exoplanet atmospheres. However, these previous inferences…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 262 cited

Photochemically-produced SO in the atmosphere of WASP-39b

Shang-Min Tsai, Elspeth K. H. Lee, Diana Powell +82

Photochemistry is a fundamental process of planetary atmospheres that regulates the atmospheric composition and stability. However, no unambiguous photochemical products have been…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 193 cited

Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere

The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Lili Alderson +129

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key chemical species that is found in a wide range of planetary atmospheres. In the context of exoplanets, CO2 is an indicator of the metal enrichment (i.…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 95 cited

Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse

Quentin Changeat, Billy Edwards, Ahmed F. Al-Refaie +11

Population studies of exoplanets are key to unlocking their statistical properties. So far the inferred properties have been mostly limited to planetary, orbital and stellar parame…